Malatrading
How Yanhuang helped a Malaysia-based cross-border e-commerce company migrate from Alibaba Cloud to AWS, building a scalable, highly available, and cloud-native platform for global growth.
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Core Services Migrated
Multi-AZ
High Availability
SEA
Regional Coverage
"Yanhuang helped us build a clear roadmap for cloud transformation, moving beyond simple migration to true modernization on AWS."
Technology Leadership
Malatrading
Customer Overview
Malatrading is a Malaysia-registered e-commerce company focused on the development and operation of cross-border e-commerce platforms. Its online platform serves consumers across Southeast Asia and beyond, supporting product sales, order processing, payment services, recommendation systems, and data analytics.
As the business expanded, Malatrading needed a more scalable and agile cloud platform to support growth, promotional peaks, and modernization initiatives.
The Challenge
Malatrading's existing e-commerce platform operated on Alibaba Cloud, with key services containerized via ACK. While functional, the environment presented several transformation challenges:
- Greater agility and faster time-to-market needed
- Global growth and regional compliance requirements
- Operational overhead from tightly coupled services
- Limited standardization in deployment workflows
- Need for stronger observability and logging
Solution Architecture
Architecture Overview
This architecture is designed to support a scalable and highly available e-commerce platform on AWS. Core business services run on Amazon EKS across multiple Availability Zones, while managed database, caching, storage, and observability components provide stronger resilience, operational efficiency, and readiness for high-traffic business scenarios such as promotions, campaigns, and peak transaction events.
Technical Highlights
- Multi-AZ deployment for high availability and fault tolerance
- Amazon EKS for scalable containerized application services
- Amazon Aurora and Amazon OpenSearch for managed data and log workloads
- Amazon S3 for durable storage, backup integration, and static asset hosting
- Centralized monitoring and alerting with Amazon CloudWatch and Prometheus-based observability
- AWS WAF and AWS Shield for edge protection and traffic security
Key Benefits
- Improves platform stability during high-traffic events
- Supports service growth with elastic scaling capabilities
- Reduces operational overhead through managed AWS services
- Strengthens security, governance, and compliance readiness
- Provides a modern cloud foundation for long-term business expansion
How We Solved It
Yanhuang proposed a full migration and modernization plan designed to support containerized business services, cloud-native deployment, and scalable data processing.
Container Migration
Migration from ACK to Amazon EKS for better orchestration and AWS integration
Database Modernization
Core relational data migrated to Amazon Aurora / RDS for managed performance
Object Storage
Migration from OSS to Amazon S3 with intelligent tiering and lifecycle policies
Observability Stack
Modern logging and monitoring using AWS-native and Loghub-aligned architecture
CI/CD Modernization
GitLab, Jenkins, Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD for GitOps workflows
Security Baseline
Landing zone preparation with security controls and compliance frameworks
AWS Services Used
Business Outcomes
The AWS transformation gave Malatrading a clear path toward a more resilient and scalable e-commerce architecture.
Higher
Availability & Resilience
Faster
Deployment Speed
Stronger
Security & Compliance
Better
Cost Governance
Key Benefits Achieved
Yanhuang's Role
Acting as the AWS migration and modernization partner, Yanhuang led the full transformation journey.
Discovery
Assessment and inventory analysis
Strategy
Migration planning and wave design
Design
Landing zone and security baseline
Handover
Knowledge transfer and operations
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